New video footage shows the moment Sherri Papini admitted to California cops that her 2016 kidnapping was a hoax. On Monday, Papini, 39, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $300,000 for falsely claiming to have been kidnapped for 22 days. The newly-released surveillance footage, which was broadcast on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” …
An Ohio mother is in critical condition Tuesday morning after a man allegedly shot her and kidnapped their 4-year-old son. Akron police said they responded to a shots fired call shortly before 7 p.m. Monday and found the 24-year-old woman unconscious with multiple gunshot wounds. She was taken to Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital. Witnesses …
Mikella Debina, 15, had been missing for nearly 20 hours, abducted from a secluded Hawaiian beach, when her alleged kidnapper brought her into a cafe in Hilo, 70 miles across the Big Island from where she was last seen. Bridge Hartman, the host at Cafe Pesto, saw the man and girl — wearing men’s clothing …
A Louisiana school bus driver was arrested on Tuesday, a day after he allegedly held a 13-year-old girl against her will and made inappropriate comments to her. Brusly police said Christopher Taplin, 33, was supposed to drop off the girl at her middle school, but he kept her on the bus and let the other …
A California man handed over his ex-girlfriends toddler — a 3-year-old boy he allegedly kidnapped late Monday — to his parents, but he fled after the handover and police are still searching for him. Donta Law, 46, reportedly gave the boy to his mother at the Oceanside Metrolink station at about 2:30 a.m. The San …
New charges against the accused killer of Memphis mom Eliza Fletcher come from the results of a DNA test on genetic material from a rape last September. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation told WREG in a statement that it didn’t complete testing on the sample from that rape until August 29, and Cleotha Henderson was …
The man accused of abducting and killing Eliza Fletcher is being charged in connection with another attack that is said to be unrelated to the Fletcher case, Fox News Digital reports. On Friday, a Memphis police spokesperson told the news outlet that 38-year-old Cleotha Henderson will face additional counts of aggravated kidnapping and rape. The …
Chicago police are looking for a man who offered a mother cash for her 5-year-old daughter and then tried to snatch the girl by the hair. Police said the incident took place just before noon on Thursday on West Fullerton Avenue on the city’s northwest side, WLS reports. The mother and the girl got away …
A Texas woman is facing attempted kidnapping charges after police say she tried to take a child who was inside a Walmart store with her mother. According to an arrest affidavit, the incident happened at a San Antonio Walmart on Sunday, as a mother was shopping in the store with her 4-year-old child. The suspect, …
Memphis police have arrested one of two suspects in the kidnapping of a mom and her 1-year-old child last week as the mom was loading groceries into her car in a Target parking lot. As CrimeOnline previously reported, an armed man demanded cash from the mother and then grabbed the toddler from her car and …
The man accused of kidnapping Tennessee mom Eliza Fletcher has allegedly done this before, WREG-TV reports. Early Sunday, the Memphis Police Department announced that 38-year-old Cleotha Abston has been charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence in connection with Fletcher’s disappearance. Fletcher, 34, was abducted around 4:20 a.m. Friday while out for her …
A former Ohio school superintendent — fired five years ago after investigators found a suspected crack pipe and crack in his vehicle during a traffic stop — was arrested in West Virginia this week for allegedly kidnapping two children earlier in the month. William Morrison, 59, has been charged with two counts of kidnapping in …
